Word: failings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although Syracuse is making its debut, Jim Ten Eyck's 33 years of coaching are pretty good insurance that the Ithacan eights will not fail to give the more seasoned outfits plenty to worry about. Cornell, which lost last week to the powerful Midy shell, is very much in the running in spite of its defeat since the Navy oarsmen are conceded to be among the best in Eastern racing circles, while Tech although beaten last Saturday by Harvard over the same course, has been strengthened by the return of its stroke, Guy Haines, son of the Tech coach...
...years. East of the Mississippi, and particularly in the Ohio Valley where the soil was moist, crops were in good condition. But west of the river, in the ten States chiefly affected by drought and dust, more than 40% of the winter wheat seeded last autumn was expected to fail. Hardest hit was Kansas where rainfall in March was only 56% of normal and the crop 47% of normal. Last week six Kansas counties reported their wheat crop a total failure. In the spring wheat States (Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin) the yield of the crop...
...Peace Strike withstood the ravages of yesterday's festooned hecklers. To the Continuations Committee and its subsidiary organizations must go credit for the persistence in impressing their aim on an unwilling Harvard. The spontaneity which marked the first spring party last year had to fail unless some distinct and catching new feature was introduced. It is quite evident that organized annual humor cannot last if it is pitted against an aim which basically has some logic...
When other methods seem to fail, President Roosevelt likes to send his lieutenants into the land to rally the sagging morale of U. S. businessmen with strong language. First it was Secretary of Commerce Roper, then Donald Richberg who tried to soothe the business jitters by loud strumming on silver-lined harps. Last week President Roosevelt selected as his newest goodwill ambassador Securities & Exchange Chairman Joseph Patrick Kennedy, dispatched him to Manhattan where business gloom is currently thickest. There in an address to 1,200 bankers, brokers and business executives at a luncheon of the American Arbitration Association, Mr. Kennedy...
With the name and fame of Harvard University behind them, any positive program put forward by our Economics professor could not fail to command attention. On fundamentals they agree. On trends of policy they agree. Let them step forward with some constructive criticism and command the attention that is worthy of their ideas...